Optical Capacitance/Conductance-Voltage Characteristics of Stored Charges in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experimental Details
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Zhang, C.; Xu, Z.; Wang, P.; Qin, Z.; Wageh, S.; Al-Ghamdi, A.; Zhao, S. Optical Capacitance/Conductance-Voltage Characteristics of Stored Charges in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Molecules 2020, 25, 2818. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25122818
Zhang C, Xu Z, Wang P, Qin Z, Wageh S, Al-Ghamdi A, Zhao S. Optical Capacitance/Conductance-Voltage Characteristics of Stored Charges in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Molecules. 2020; 25(12):2818. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25122818
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Chengwen, Zheng Xu, Peng Wang, Zilun Qin, S. Wageh, Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, and Suling Zhao. 2020. "Optical Capacitance/Conductance-Voltage Characteristics of Stored Charges in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes" Molecules 25, no. 12: 2818. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25122818